Working with lighting designer Baz Halpin and lighting director Hunter Frith, PRG's Yvonne Donnelly Smith helped deliver an innovative show for the nine week tour.
Halpin's design successfully incorporates a diverse array of lighting tools to create a clean minimalistic show where retro meets modern. His choice of fixtures helped to cut through, as there was no smoke used in the show, the design was simple but effective and didn't need any bells or whistles.
Your eye is immediately drawn to the distinctive Skypans, seven hanging on the mid truss on moving pantographs with mirrored reflectors and a single 80 W bulb. 10 more, floor mounted, six with mirrored reflectors and four with custom gold reflectors with an array of 7 x 80w filament bulbs.
The large clean white backdrop was lit from the front by 53 Martin Stagebars with gobo and effects projection ably provided by 10 PRG Best Boys, which really carried the show. Hanging upstage of the backdrop 44 x BB4 on 11 poles provided effective punctuation and 10 VL3000 spot and eight VL 3500 Wash FX were used to light the band. Hunter ran the show from a Flying Pig Full Boar.
Hunter commented, "Yvonne and Bill Martin really looked after us and the overall service from PRG was excellent, I was particularly grateful to the exceptional crew provided by PRG; James Tomlinson, Paul Makin and Stewart Lee who were awesome, this has been the best Joe tour ever."
(Jim Evans)
